blood pressure high for the last week scared docs will push an induction

So my BP has been normal all pregnancy well I have a cuff at home and monitor it myself, my last 6 readings over the last 6 days have been 170/100, 170/95, 160/95, 160/70, 175/115, 170/115 and I go to the doctor on friday and I"m concerned they might start pushing an induction within a few weeks due to the BP patterns, inductions suck I want to go natural as possible anyone have advice or been induced due to BP? I've never experienced high blood pressure or been induced before 41 weeks so I'm nervous this go around

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I've always had normal blood pressure but on Christmas Eve I checked my BP and it was 147/87. That's really high for me. I'm at my doctors today. The crazy part is I've managed to put on 6lbs in two weeks but I've hardly eaten because I was sick with a bad cold most of last week and hardly had an appetite. Gut feeling is that I'm not going to make it to 40 weeks. I'm curious to see what my BP is today. As of right now I'm sitting in the waiting room of my OBs office.

the swelling has been there but they did the urine collect and at that time my BP was normal I've called but of course they are very busy today and told me to wait it out since I lack the facial swelling and headache and spots of pre-E but I've been kicked back all day today so I don't get the spikes

Those are pretty high bp readings - I was induced twice for high bp and mine weren't that high. My inductions weren't bad at all, though - the second time I couldn't even feel any contractions and kept telling the nurse I needed more pitocin but the monitors were showing I was having strong contractions every 2 minutes, so pitocin contractions aren't always worse! Better safe than sorry with health reasons for inductions, I say. My doctor's advice to me was to have lots of sex before the induction for the semen to soften my cervix and I do think it helped me dilate/efface beforehand and made my body more cooperative with the induction meds.

Yeah, make sure you keep checking for signs of pre-e and keep them posted on your BP readings.

I guess at this point just chilling out is about the best you can do. I don't know if it interests you at all, but I've found that eating raw garlic, chewing some fennel seed, taking calcium with magnesium, and eating a high protein diet does wonders for lower BP. I've had borderline high BP at times and doing these things always helps to lower my BP.